Comments on: Risks to Gartner’s smartphone forecasts: will Microsoft beat Apple, Nokia execute, and Samsung fail? https://rossdawson.com/risks-to-gartners-smartphone-forecasts-will-microsoft-beat-apple-nokia-execute-and-samsung-fail/ Keynote speaker | Futurist | Strategy advisor Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Anonymous https://rossdawson.com/risks-to-gartners-smartphone-forecasts-will-microsoft-beat-apple-nokia-execute-and-samsung-fail/#comment-2625 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:26:00 +0000 https://rossdawson.com/?p=3134#comment-2625 Apple doesn’t really need to release a new, low end iPhone though…  They can continue selling the previous generation model as the “budget” model and simply keep updating it with software.  Win-Win as people who hold on to their iPhones for forever keep support and people that can’t afford the new latest/greatest can buy the last generation model w/out buying used/refurbished (ie they still get warranty support and a new phone).  They also have the benefit of getting all the accessories, etc that are released for their phone when it was the latest/greatest.

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]]> By: Ross Dawson https://rossdawson.com/risks-to-gartners-smartphone-forecasts-will-microsoft-beat-apple-nokia-execute-and-samsung-fail/#comment-2621 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:10:00 +0000 https://rossdawson.com/?p=3134#comment-2621 In reply to Harold Jarche.

Well it is hard to predict the future so you have to make some assumptions, but yes it’s a fair guess that it won’t be linear :-)

]]> By: Harold Jarche https://rossdawson.com/risks-to-gartners-smartphone-forecasts-will-microsoft-beat-apple-nokia-execute-and-samsung-fail/#comment-2620 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:14:00 +0000 https://rossdawson.com/?p=3134#comment-2620 It’s linear! They don’t understand complex adaptive systems, but they sell this consulting crap like hotcakes. Guess it works; for now.

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